Helping teams identify flow bottlenecks

OkaloaFlowLab

As part of the Kanban India 2022, Patrick Steyaert and Arlette Vercammen facilitated a wonderful Embark With Team Flow session. I thoroughly enjoyed the concepts and the simulations with OkaloaFlowLab and how this can help Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and even Engineering leaders simulate situations prevalent in their context and let the teams experience the bottlenecks themselves.

After over two decades of the agile movement, managers still resort to assigning tasks. Does this impact the team, or is it just a coach's suggestion? Why not try this out? OkaloaFlowLab simulations make this so stark and in the face, that team members and leaders will not find excuses to continue the anti-pattern.

As a coach, I still see teams tending to have skill-based silos and some hesitation toward practices like pair programming and mob programming! I encourage leaders and coaches to try the OkaloaFlow Lab simulation to see the benefits!

I loved the two-day session and recommend it to coaches. Also, thanks to Patrick Steyaert for wonderful discussions about "Deferred Commitment", "System of work", "System Thinking vs Local Efficiencies", and "Focus on flow".

While teams tend to use an "either-or" kind of approach to practices, the focus on balancing "Learning", "Collaboration", and "Flow" resonates with me.

Finally but not least, the wonderful participants from varied contexts and companies were a pleasure to engage with.

Thank you, Prashant M J , Noopur Pathak , and Prachi Arora from INNOVATION ROOTS for setting up and enabling these sessions with the guidance of Priyank P. .